1 Cooperative National Project of Digitisation of Archival, Library and Museum Holdings “Croatian Cultural Heritage” INFuture2007: “Digital Information and Heritage” Zagreb, 8 November 2007 Jozo Ivanović Croatian State Archiv Goran Zlodi Department of Information Sciences Faculty of Humanities and Social Science

2 INFuture2007: “Digital Information and Heritage” Zagreb, 8 November 2007 Cooperative National Project of Digitisation of ALM Holdings  Initiative of the Ministry of Culture, National and University Library and Croatian Library Council (2005)  Holders of the programme: Ministry of Culture National and University Library Croatian State Archives Museum Documentation Centre

3 INFuture2007: “Digital Information and Heritage” Zagreb, 8 November 2007 Why cooperative ALM approach?  fragmented resources and activities  various level of quality of existing digital collections  common procedures of digital content management  uniqe opportunity to enable integrated access to cultural heritage  common users !

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6 INFuture2007: “Digital Information and Heritage” Zagreb, 8 November 2007 What is Cooperative national project of digitisation ?  not an all-inclusive and closed digitisation project the primary goal of which is to produce specific digital contents  framework for encouraging and developing a greater number of individual and adapted projects and activities on the digitisation of cultural heritage

7  Selection criteria  Methodology, standards, interoperability  overcome of fragmentation of resources and activities  Product shaping and management  Long-term preservation, sustainability and usability of products and service  Expenses Key issues

8  Digitisation = “Digitisation” + Metadata + Providing on-line access + Rights management + Long-term preservation Digitisation ≠ “digitisation”

9 Accordance with European initiatives in the field of information society:  eEurope 2005 Action Plan ( ) ex_en.htm  eEurope+ x_en.htm  i2010 A European Information Society for growth and employment ( ) ex_en.htm

10 Accordance with fundamental documents in the field of digitisation of heritage:  Lund Principles, 2001 ftp://ftp.cordis.lu/pub/ist/docs/digicult/lund_principles-en.pdf  Lund Action Plan, en.htm  Charter of Parma erparma031119final-hr.htm

11 INFuture2007: “Digital Information and Heritage” Zagreb, 8 November 2007 Objectives (1)  The complete digitisation of material in the long term leads to the creation of recognizable and relevant contents and “cultural space” in the electronic environment.  Services based on these contents are readily accessible to all interested parties while selected contents could be accessed in accordance with usability rules through networking.  Produced digital contents are adapted, adequately formed and processed according to adopted norms and good practices which enable their inclusion in European, regional and other cultural contents and services networks.

12 INFuture2007: “Digital Information and Heritage” Zagreb, 8 November 2007 Objectives (2)  Digital collections are comprehensive and usable in the forming and supply of educational, tourist and other similar service contents.  Digital collections are part of the organised management system which offers sufficient guarantees for their permanent preservation and availability.  Institutions whose resources are not sufficiently developed shall not be deprived of the possibility to digitise their materials.

13 INFuture2007: “Digital Information and Heritage” Zagreb, 8 November 2007 Activities  Elaboration of standards and guidelines for the digitisation of material  Establishment of support and monitoring systems for the digitisation projects.  Establishment of cooperative digital archives  Portal “Croatian cultural heritage” quick access to the digital collections support for digitisation activities

14  Initiative of the Ministry of Culture, National and University Library and Croatian Library Council (2005)  Working group of 13 representatives from archive, library and museum communities developed “The national programme of digitisation of archival, library and museum holdings” ( )  Agreement on co-operation on the implementation of National Project “Croatian Cultural Heritage” (Ministry of Culture, National and University Library in Zagreb, Croatian State Archives and Museum Documentation Centre): Chronology (1):

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16  Council and Office of the National Project of Digitisation:  Working groups for drawing up of standards and guidelines for: - WG1 Selection criteria and preparation for digitisation - WG2 Digitisation procedures - WG3 File formats (for preservation and access) - WG4 Digital collections development - WG5 Quality control of digitisation procedures Chronology (2):

17  Questionnaire on existing digital collections and on-going projects :  Call for open tender for the digitisation projects : (58 projects applied)  Department for digitisation of library, archival and museum holdings (within the Ministry of Culture)  Start of “Croatian Cultural Heritage” portal development  Development of Data model (adopted and adapted Michael-EU data model) Chronology (3):

18 from November 20th 2007 visit new portal “Croatian Cultural Heritage” on